December 2010
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Dec 31st
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“After Goethe” by Robert Hass In all the mountains, Stillness; In the treetops Not a breath of wind. The birds are silent in the woods. Just wait: soon enough You will be quiet too.  
Dec 30th
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“To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. It’s hard admitting that...”
– Carl Jung
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Lament” by Rainer Maria Rilke To whom, heart, would you lament? Ever more avoided your path struggles through incomprehensible humankind. The more in vain perhaps since it holds to the course, holds to the course toward the future, toward the lost. Once before. You lamented? What was it? A fallen berry of jubilation, unripe. But now my tree of jubilation breaks, my slow jubilation...
Dec 27th
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“What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via Rachel Held Evans)
Dec 26th
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“Mary wasn’t crazy. She was carrying the hope of the world inside her; she...”
– Julie Clawson (Source)
Dec 25th
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“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) (via glamobsessed) (via yeahharukimurakami, luvandluxe-deactivated20100820)
Dec 24th
toynbeeconvector asked: Thank you so much for your poem and the notes that followed. I hope you don't mind if I reblog. :) Thank you for reminding me of how precious our actions are. You've single-handedly made my year complete.
Dec 22nd
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“A Ritual to Read to Each Other” If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Part I of “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot  I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring  Dull roots with spring rain.  Winter kept us warm, covering  Earth in forgetful snow, feeding  A little life with dried tubers.  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee  With a shower of rain; we...
Dec 21st
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“God’s love is incomprehensible and unchangeable. For it was not after we were...”
– St. Augustine, John’s Gospel cx. 6 (via wesleyhill)
Dec 20th
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“The truth is there are a million steps, and we don’t even know what the steps...”
– Donald Miller, from his book Searching for God Knows What
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“You cannot know that which is most beautiful in yourself unless you are willing...”
– Dan Allender
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Hope is as near as the nearest work of art, the closest conversation, the person...”
– David Dark, from The Sacredness of Questioning Everything 
Dec 14th
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“You are looking for ways to meet Jesus. You are trying to meet him not only in...”
– Henri Nouwen, from The Inner Voice of Love
Dec 13th
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“Portrait of a Lady” by T. S. Eliot  Thou hast committed— Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. I Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself—as it will seem to do— With “I have saved this afternoon for you”; And four wax candles in the darkened room, Four rings of light upon the...
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“The problem with fundamentalism is that it can’t adapt to change. When you count...”
– Rachel Held Evans, from her excellent book Evolving in Monkey Town
Dec 9th
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“God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to...”
– C. S. Lewis 
Dec 8th
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Listen“You Are Not Alone” by Mavis Staples 
Dec 7th
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“I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone” by Rainer Maria Rilke  I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone    enough to truly consecrate the hour. I am much too small in this world, yet not small    enough to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart. I want my free will and want it accompanying the path which leads to action; and want during times that beg...
Dec 5th
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive,...”
– Howard Thurman 
Dec 4th
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Life on Death Row →
This is a link to an excellent article by Jennifer Fulwiler about the freedom she found through faith. 
Dec 3rd
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Listen“O Come Emmanuel” by Rosie Thomas  ...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd